Who wrote the Gospel of Judas and does it fit into Christian history?
The Gospel of Judas was found in the late 1970s in a cave near El-Minya, Egypt. This self-proclaimed gospel consists of 13 pages of a 66-page codex (book) containing other writings yet to be published. After extensive tests of the papyrus, ink, and writing style, the manuscript dates to the third century AD. It was written in ancient Coptic and, like the Nag Hammadi Library, was a translation from Greek. After its discovery, the manuscript was put on the market for around three million dollars, but no one was willing to pay such an exorbitant price. The manuscript was then placed in a safety deposit box in New York, where improper storage resulted in severe damage to the manuscript. In April of 2006, the National Geographic Society announced the publication of the English translation of the Gospel of Judas. It was described as a dramatic and important discovery, one that would challenge the official doctrine of the church. The press claimed this gospel would give new insights into the
